PSSST—JUST READ this and don’t take your eyes off the page. The art Mafia was created by exactly the same person who started the Federal Reserve System—Andrew Mellon. Doesn’t this tell you something? Once they were able to debase the gold dollar and replace it with “paper” they also created the Washington museum scene with modern art bought from the Communists—a paper replacement for the “golden” art of our America. Remember: you read it in Artforum.

Dearest reader: I must admit I come to this column with strong bias. I have become convinced that, if the ’70s was the age of narcissism, we now live in the age of paranoia. It is more than Richard Hofstadter’s paranoid style in American politics reborn. Conspiracy theories have turned into real conspiracies. Unlike Arthur Conan Doyle, who feared the Mormons and the anarchists and invented Sherlock Holmes to combat them, we live in an age in